I also watch BrickImmortar. Maritime Horrors and Part-Time Explorer are other good ones that follow the same trend, with Maritime actually working on a ship on the Great Lakes, so there is a lot of "Speaking from experience" presentation when he is going over shipping accidents.

As for other channels that fit your criteria:

Drachinifel: Keeping with the naval theme, he covers naval history from the Age of Sail up through the end of World War 2 (with some limited outside those time periods). His main thing is he is an engineer by trade, so he goes into the engineering behind warships and why they were designed the way they were. To that end, he is well known for having a massive hate boner for the Bismarck-class as being overly engineered and inefficient (him showing it to be less useful than even ships older than it), but also giving ideas on how it could have been improved in a separate video. He also has an in depth, 3 part documentary on the Battle of Jutland, and a running theme of having his April Fools episode being the covering of a ship in his usual style but one that doesnt exist or wasnt used in that role (his most recent being taking the SS Great Eastern and roleplaying as if the Royal Navy actually went through with buying it like had been considered in the 1850's).

CallMeEzekiel: A history channel covering all of the usual world history stuff, but using the Polandball characters to represent everyone. He also typically goes into more detail about things for why certain events happened or why certain groups believed what they did. Also has several episodes covering China from the Opium Wars up to the Boxer Rebellion, which is a time period that gets overlooked sometimes in world history.

Captain Slicerax: A currently small but fast growing channel. He does play video games with a Vtuber model (mostly War Thunder), but his day job is as an aerospace engineer. So he also uses the channel to talk about the history and designs of various military aircraft. He recently completed a 4 part series on the history of the F-4 Phantom, but he has covered both Soviet aircraft (usually dunking on their bad designs, or lamenting them as good designs but too late to matter like with the MiG-29) and has started covering some of the newer American aircraft (which is usually giving them high praise). He does admittedly have a hardcore pro-US, anti-Communist bias, but I doubt many here will care about that too much.

Stiff Lip Supplements: Lets be entirely blunt and up-front here. This channel is literally the advertisement arm of the company of the same name founded by some veterans that makes caffeine pouches you can put in your lip like tobacco dip to both kick a tobacco addition and/or get caffeine without shaker cup mixes. But even if you dont get their product, the videos they use to advertise are funny in their own right and make fun of stereotypes about the military and the different MOS's. So it is fun in its own right to me.

On November 30th, 2024 he was found dead in his cell. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified his cause of death as suicide.

Now that part I didnt hear about. I had actually heard about the shooting when it happened, but like you said they memory holed the shit out of it.

Probably just as much because he was attacking Jews, and it really didnt help with the fact that the Left was being seen as becoming increasingly anti-Semitic and it was driving away the usually reliable Jewish vote. Which I would bet solid money had a not insignificant amount to do with Trump overperforming in New York and New Jersey.

Or alternatively, look at how many of their "collective" businesses go bankrupt because they either didnt have enough customers or had completely fucked expenses.

It is one of the classics of military fiction, and as much as I like Clancy's stuff normally, RSR is him at his absolute peak. But you can very much tell it was written in the 1980's just based on the sensibilities of many of the characters and the things he has them do or say. Even if other elements are arguably ahead of their time (Amelia Nakamura being one of the main side characters, who ends the book as the first female ace fighter pilot).

Another one for the uncanny ability Clancy seems to have for knowing his military stuff, he almost perfectly called how the US would conduct the opening of Operation Desert Storm, with the opening air strikes by NATO almost mirroring the same strategy that would end up being used IRL, but almost 5 years early.

EDIT: I also completely forgot about the fact that the book starts with a Muslim terrorist attack. Which would absolutely not fly in this day and age.

My most recent is I went back and reread Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.

I was reminded of how much I love that book, how much I would love to see it made into a TV show (each chapter is dense enough you could easily make an hour episode out of each one)...and how much I hope Hollywood never actually touches it. Because dear god, they would butcher the shit out of it, especially Nakamura and especially Vigdis.

From some of the early exit polls, it looks like every age demographic actually voted for the Conservatives....except for the 65+ (read: Boomers), who also were the largest voting block. And their number one issue was "Standing up to Trump" (and second was "improving healthcare"), while very other demographic were concerned with cost of living and "making Canada a better place to live."

When you combine that with the single most anti-Trump demographic in the US is also the 65+, with most others being positive (the next lowest is Millennials, where he is running dead even), Trump really does seem to have this ability to cause global Boomer Rage. And it is so fascinating to witness.

And that is with a bunch of polls deliberately trying to drag him down. I would be interested to see how the polls giving him such low approval stacked up with the "Predicted election results" vs. "Actual election results". Because something tells me none of those bastards actually did anything to improve their methodologies after they got embarrassed on the last go around, because "ORANGE MAN STILL BAD, REEEEEE!!!"

I still do, even if it is a "I wont let them ruin my memories" sort of care. I still love and rewatch the 7 movies that are actually worth a damn (1-6+Rogue One), and I still love the old Expanded Universe. And I always will, even if I will never forgive Disney for ruining the newer movies.

I would need to see more about this. If it is anything like the Star Wars: Visions (where Disney just let them go to town), it could actually be pretty interesting. And considering that even modern Anime has been able to do female characters that actually have depth and are interesting, it isnt necessarily a turn off for me.

But I have very little faith that Disney would be willing to do that again 4 years on, and will probably micromanage it to the point it becomes shit and they ruin anything good that could have come.

Kansas for me.

I do still like mine, yes. It is big enough to have things to do, places to go, and options for shopping needs. But still small enough to have a tightknit community, low crime, and people looking out for and taking care of each other. Apparently around 50k people is the magic number in that regard.

It is indeed quite the whiplash, and I do kind of enjoy it.

whatever she calls herself now

Unfortunately, Mumei already confirmed on her past life account that if she comes back to streaming, it is going to be a while because it would take pretty extensive therapy to get rid of her chronic cough, and it has gotten to the point where it can be painful for her to speak long term (it was part of the reason she turned off her super-chats: She felt guilty about taking peoples money and not being able to read their messages, because she would have too many messages to read them before being in pain).

Trust me, she was one of my Oshi's so it hurts. But at the same time, I saw it coming.

I dont see this as any sign that EN is in trouble. Pretty much everyone has seen this coming for almost a year now (considering she barely streamed anymore).

Hell, other than Fauna coming out of left field and the only one who seemed to have some sort of actual beef with Cover, the rest of the graduations in EN were people that everyone saw coming. Gura and Ame were constantly talking about burn out (even as Dooby "Ame" has talked about how she doesnt feel like streaming as much) and Mumei has had a chronic and deteriorating throat/vocal cord condition for years now.

Meanwhile, both Advent and Justice have seen pretty significant growth even compared to Council and Myth, so it certainly isnt translating to the fan side.

The Quakers also have principles, and they stick to them. And if they do have to break them, it requires a mighty effort as well as still staying within those principles in some way. Like how the Quakers were against the Revolution and wanted to broker a peace treaty with King George, until he declared them to be traitors as well and then they fully backed the Revolution despite their pacifist teachings.

If they are "evangelical", probably some form of Unitarian. Sounds like their thing.

I fully believe tariffs have NOTHING to do with the price of the Switch 2

Considering it is more expensive in Europe when you look at the exchange rate, that would be true.

They also know what doesnt sell. So you will see anime producers sometimes pick up some sort of woke media because someone made a good pitch and tried to convince them it would sell. Then when it doesnt, instead of doubling down like a Western company would, they say "Well, so much for that" and move on to the next one.

They invested like $200 million into making their own shows and movies and no one watches them. (The exception are Matt Walsh movies)

This is probably the biggest one of all of the reasons. Sure, we can talk about Ben losing viewers but they were a drop in the overall bucket when he still has well over 100,000 concurrent in a live show and millions over the life of an episode.

But the movie arm? That thing is eating them alive. They werent wrong that conservatives were stupid for abandoning culture, but they (Especially Jeremy) fell into a lot of the old traps that old attempts at conservative media has. So you ended up with lots of movies and shows that were mediocre at best and at worst were little better than the Woke Left slop they were replacing (Lady Ballers and Mr. Birchum go here). THEN they put it behind a paywall where the majority of what you are paying for is politics and that anyone willing to do that was already paying. And from the sounds of it, The Pendragon Cycle is eating them alive and guzzling down money like it is going out of style.

And of course, this is before we get into the fact that apparently none of them want to listen to Klavan (who is probably the only one there with any actual sense of the culture) who has been telling them that movies and TV shows are old news and they should have been looking into video games since that is where actual culture is now.

It has been fun watching them cope and seethe over the idea that they will create a unified EU army to counteract American influence though. Because not only is it already falling apart with the French being the killer (many such cases, since they always want "EU Army" to mean "Mega-French Army"), but because their weapon systems are wildly outdated and expensive. After all, when all three of the major European fighters currently in production (Eurofighter, Gripen, Rafale) cost more than planes that are an entire generation newer than them (F-35), is it any wonder that nations that actually understand the world and who the actual power is ignore them (see: Poland throwing down big money to get their own custom F-35 variant they dubbed the Hussar, a move usually only done by Israel in the past).

The Biden Admin nearly destroyed the EU with monetary warfare policies that basically raped the Euro. The EU is already a shadow of itself...

Lets be entirely honest here, it goes even longer than Biden. He was just the haymaker that ended the fight. After all, as I have seen pointed out by many a people sounding the alarm on this, the EU has roughly the same GDP it did in 2008. Meanwhile, the US has gone from having a GDP less than the combined total of the EU to one that eclipses it to a wide degree.

And this is before we get into the fact that Europe has had basically no major innovations unless it was some mandated nanny policy (like the infamous "attached to the bottle" caps).

a conservative Youtuber who hates Trudeau cheered on Trudeau 'getting one over on Trump' by doing exactly what Trump wanted, in regards to tariffs.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the scale, there is a Canadian Vtuber I was watching, where despite having no strong political opinions she was saying "Look, if becoming American is what it takes to get rid of Trudeau, it is what it is."

Then again, maybe she can say what some of them would actually believe because as a Vtuber she can get away with no one knowing who she is and they cant attack her for it.

What's the total cost of the game and marketing?

And that is even more complex to find out than you might think. Because with the delay, whatever the listed budget is is not what it is actually going to cost. It is the same problem they will run into with Hollywood movies in recent times. Like how they tried to claim the new Captain America was "only" $150M because that was the listed budget, but pretty much everyone who actually is in the know on the movie has said they spent closer to $300M, which would take it from "minor" to "major" loss for Disney.

First time where I saw EVERYONE got it wrong, both from the left and right.

I'll fess up that I was one of them who thought it was bad until I saw people I actually trust to keep it straight because of past performance on the subject (namely, Rev Says Desu and Legal Mindset) managed to clear things up. The "obscenity's" part did get my back up based on past experience, but seeing that it is an expansion of a law that actually outlines what obscenity means in clear language instead of the vague ones that are usually done was reassuring.

But I also agree with the sentiment that some expressed in their respective livestreams that it is better to fault on the side of fighting censorship than not fighting it enough. Just be big enough to admit when you got it wrong.

No, it was after both Napoleons had lost power. It was a gift from the French in honor of the Centennial of the United States founding.

And attacking video games and anime, thereby ruining any momentum the Right has with young men.